One more nudge - I've got some really interesting responses so far! Thank you to those who responded. Would love to represent more views. A few more participants would really make this a useful piece of research on how counsellors & psychotherapists make decisions. #TherapistsConnect #TherapistSky

How do you decide what to do when a client discloses they are involved with a proscribed organisation? I'm really interested in finding out your views for a study that I am currently carrying out as part of my work at the University of Westminster: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/westminste...

There are two things you can do right now to support young trans people in England. 1) Engage in political advocacy and community support. I've got *loads* of advice on this in my blog post and zine "But what can I do? How to fight the trans panic".

This is a hot mess of outright lies and misinformation from the Home Secretary, designed to try and persuade people that a government which is implementing some of the most hostile anti-immigration/asylum policies, in practice, for decades is progressive. 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Call for participants! I’m interested in how therapists make complex decisions on ethical issues and what guides them. I’d be really grateful if counsellors, psychotherapists or trainees (UK based) out there would fill out this survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/westminste... #TherapistSky

Call for participants! I’m interested in ho therapists make complex decisions on ethical issues and what guides them. I’d be really grateful if counsellors, psychotherapists or trainees (UK based) out there would fill out this survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/westminste... #TherapistsConnect

Sooo much to do today! And have decided filling out the Home office consultation on 'earned settlement' is a priority. Only going through am I realising how repugnant and cruel the proposals are. DEADLINE IS MIDNIGHT. Amnestey have a Q by Q guide: media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am... Please do it!!!

Under Starmer, recognised refugees can no longer reunite with their children. Recognised refugees. Denied the right to reunite with their children. It’s diabolical. Worse than anything the Tories did. & no, the racists are not & never will be satisfied. So yes, he’s hated.

The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

those with power focus on queer pain, gender dysphoria, the closet, because framing our lives as joyful and euphoric, lived on our own terms, might lead others to question the norms they accept which imprison them

A sobering thought: were Nigel Farage to become Prime Minister then the terrifying scenes from Minneapolis would become terrifying scenes here.

look... the entity has banned 37 intl aid orgs from operating in Gaza. as the post explains, since these orgs distribute a lot of food, the population will remain at severe food insecurity. it's all the more important to support mutual aid orgs like Sameer now, as they do their own food distros.

Let's choose kindness in 2026. youtu.be/lopMMkz0law

Donation link at www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...

Nice application of Thich Nhat Hanh's words on Interbeing 🪷 🌧️🍎 to bring a little hope, from @jeremydavidengels.bsky.social theconversation.com/meditating-o...

The main issue facing any UK government isn't actually the number of people seeking asylum, in the grand scheme, proportionally, we aren't talking about huge figures, especially when compared per capita to countries such as France, but the constant images we see in the media. 1/

When a week feels like years, Take a mindful breath. Feel the earth under your feet. Be where you are. As you breathe in, say to yourself, I know that I am breathing in. As you breathe out, say to yourself, I know that I am breathing out. Repeat as needed. And it will be needed repeatedly.

Long ago, a stone felt a tingle on its skin. Moss. A new feeling. A green feeling. The granite spoke of ages in the heat of deep Earth. The moss sang the taste of sunlight and the softness of salamander bellies. They named one another. And told those names to no one at all.

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. - Mary Oliver

Israel's massacre of Palestinian journalists has been unconscionable. And the silence of western journalists has been an utter abomination to our profession. And to humanity. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

RELEASED We can now confirm that every arrestee from the Lift The Ban sign-holding action has been released. None have been charged. Hundreds of the arrestees were taken to police cells. Hundreds were processed in pop-up gazebos after queuing for hours. www.wedonotcomply.org

As peaceful protestors are arrested for holding placards, starving Palestinians are being shot in the street. This will go down as one of the most shameful moments in British legal history. No amount of suppression can hide the truth: our government is complicit in genocide.

The obliteration of Gaza. Photo by @alessiomamo.bsky.social

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

"When I came out as trans at 17, my school counsellor was one of the first people I ever told. Her unquestioning support meant everything to me... That was the first time I truly felt accepted by someone..." @uglastefania.bsky.social not only do we still lack conversion therapy ban we have a new s28

This seems to be a good route for sending help to Gaza. I've just donated. Please share widely chuffed.org/project/help...

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility

The contrast could not be more stark.

In Vietnam, there are myriad little lakes formed from bomb craters—in which lotus flowers grow. That image sticks with me. The Zen master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh taught, no mud, no lotus. Without the mud, the flower cannot grow. What will we grow from the mud we are collectively in?

Ireland has had "sELf iD" for 10 years now and not one single issue that the media, government and anti-trans movement predicted has come to pass. Not one. If it works in Ireland why would it not work here? No one who opposes it can give a good answer, because the real answer is transphobia

“I tell my students, when you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” — Toni Morrison, interview 2003

I started a blog where I will be nerding out about Merleau-Ponty and gestalt stuff. I’ve got a couple of posts up. You can even subscribe if you want.

These sections from the final version of my puberty blocker ban paper. They clearly show CT in the “new” GIDS…

So the Hero has decreed through his mouthpieces the Lawgivers, first, that the proper shape of the narrative is that of the arrow or spear, starting here and going straight there and THOK! hitting its mark (which drops dead); second, that the central concern of narrative... is conflict...

“It is culture that sets the limits on the self-stories we can imagine, construct, and live – and culture that continues to color and inform those stories, even at times and places where we were sure we had violated or transcended those limits...

Israel keeps firing on starving people looking for food. We keep supporting them militarily and diplomatically but Palestine Action are the terrorists. And I could face 14 years in the gaol for posting this message.

[Gestalt therapy] does not require therapists to show themselves as better at living... but that we are experienced in holding contact even when anxious, and are able to use the supports around us...to be able to hold the relationship with ethics and commitment wherever it leads.- Peter Philippson

We know ourselves as a story, and out of that self-story can come certain next chapters, and not others. That self-story then forms the opening... which supports us to go on developing that narrative (or perhaps endlessly repeating it) in certain directions, but not others. - Gordon Wheeler

The need organizes the field - Lewin In a certain field, a certain experience will emerge rather than another - Francesetti #gestalt

"Deviation leaves it's own marks on the ground, which can help generate alternative lines, which cross the ground in unexpected ways." Sara Ahmed, Orientations...

Ahmed suggests "...queer lives are about the potentiality of not following certain conventional scripts of family, inheritance, and child rearing, whereby “not following” involves disorientation; it makes things oblique, which in turn opens up another way to inhabit those forms."

The body acts on what is within reach, which extends the reach of this body yet keeps other objects out of reach. - Ahmed in 'Orientations: Towards a Queer Phenomenology'

Dissertation mode. So expect/excuse/enjoy some random quotes over the coming months! #gestalt #therapistsconnect #therapistsky

Wooooo this one touched a nerve. Surprised to find myself in tears at my desk... brought a bit of attention to how these little signs of safety land with me too... simple things... Thanks for sharing @hleehurley.com

@ukagp-social.bsky.social I've added you to go.bsky.app/Nib3hyK - if anyone else wants to be added send me a message